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    This document is a student's assignment response analyzing Aristotle's six elements of drama and discussing how Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex exemplifies a classical tragedy. The student outlines Aristotle's six elements - spectacle, character, plot, diction, song, and thought. They then analyze how Oedipus Rex contains tragic elements like setting, character with a tragic flaw, and a plot that moves to a tragic conclusion. The response also discusses how the play's dialogue and chorus reinforce the tragic message and atmosphere throughout the play.

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    This document is a student's assignment response analyzing Aristotle's six elements of drama and discussing how Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex exemplifies a classical tragedy. The student outlines Aristotle's six elements - spectacle, character, plot, diction, song, and thought. They then analyze how Oedipus Rex contains tragic elements like setting, character with a tragic flaw, and a plot that moves to a tragic conclusion. The response also discusses how the play's dialogue and chorus reinforce the tragic message and atmosphere throughout the play.

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    This document is a student's assignment response analyzing Aristotle's six elements of drama and discussing how Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex exemplifies a classical tragedy. The student outlines Aristotle's six elements - spectacle, character, plot, diction, song, and thought. They then analyze how Oedipus Rex contains tragic elements like setting, character with a tragic flaw, and a plot that moves to a tragic conclusion. The response also discusses how the play's dialogue and chorus reinforce the tragic message and atmosphere throughout the play.

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    Name: Amir lodhi


    Roll No: S21NENLT2M01087
    Subject: Literary Criticism M.A English SP21 section B
    To: Sir Orangzaib Wattoo

    Q. What are the Componetnts of Drama? Discuss Oedipus Rex as an


    Example?

    Ans. ARISTOTLE’S SIX ELEMENTS of drama are

    1. Spectacle
    2. Character
    3. Plot
    4. Diction
    5. Song
    6. Thought

    Oedipus Rex is a typical classical tragedy because it has the element of tragic
    setting, atmosphere and mood, tragic character with tragic hamartia, tragic plot
    design moving to tragic disintegration, and therefore the tragic realization by
    the character and audience.

    The dialogue as well as the language of the chorus also emphasizes the tragic
    message about the tragic life of the ill-fated Oedipus.

    Oedipus Rex is an ancient Greek tragedy which is so typical of the classical


    tragedies that Aristotle took it as an example to define and illustrate the
    qualities of a tragedy. Aristotle's definition is a descriptive one (and not
    prescriptive); the definition of tragedy has been modified because many great
    tragedies have been written since without being confined to the Aristotelian
    features. However, it is feasible to first see this tragedy in terms of Aristotle's
    definition.

    Aristotle defined tragedy in terms of its plot, character and action. The plot of
    a tragedy must consist of one, great and complete action. Each part of the play
    must contribute to the final tragic consequences and effect. The cause and
    effect must be logically linked: no external force must intervene. The main tragic
    character must possess great status and ideal qualities; but he must also have a
    weakness, though not a moral flaw —this weakness is called ‘hamartia'. The
    consequence of the character's own error of judgment or of his wrong action
    must bring the fall, from which there is no escape. This should give us the sense
    of inevitability, making us accept and realize the reality and the weakness of the
    character. The reversal and discovery must reveal to the character and the
    audience the cause of the character's undoing and downfall. It should not be the
    doing of the external forces, like supernatural forces or of fate and chance.

    Besides the tragic plot, we have a typically tragic character, Oedipus. Oedipus is
    a tragic character because he is a great man with some ideals and with a
    commitment to find out the truth and cure the problem besetting is country.
    But like a tragic character, he has a tragic weakness. His tragic weakness is that
    in the confidence of what he knows or can know he becomes too careless and
    disrespectful towards the gods, the fate that the oracles have disclosed for him:
    he defies to any inner voice and wisdom with regards to fate and destiny.

    Another tragic element in the play Oedipus Rex is its tragic atmosphere. From
    beginning to end, we are exposed to very serious and frightening situations. The
    dramatic conflict among the characters and the dramatic tension that builds in
    our minds never settles down; and there is no comic element, even like in
    Shakespearean tragedies. Like in a typical tragedy, the dramatist has designed
    even the dialogue so carefully as to create and sustain a very serious tone and
    mood throughout. The hopes that always lead us to fear, and the anxiety that
    always leads us to frustration finally contributes to the catharsis. Our false
    hopes and wishes as prompted and guided by the chorus finally collapse into the
    tragic purification of emotions, which is called catharsis or purgation (in the
    audience), along with the tragic change in the characters. The chorus is also a
    corollary element that contributes considerably in the tragic characteristics of
    this drama.

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